Description: To spur and accelerate the pace of academic innovation, the AXA Research Fund has created the Awards, designed to support mid-career researchers with extremely high potential for innovation in their fields. Laureates will be awarded a grant to give them the means to develop and test their hypotheses. Awarded projects can last for 1 to 2 years and funding amounts to 250 K€: it will be channeled through an academic institution, and can only be used to fund research or dissemination activities.

Areas of research eligible for fundingEnvironmental risks

Climate change, from glacier retreat to sea-level rise.

Natural hazards, from earth hazards to atmospheric and space-weather phenomena.